Rhythm in the Bow (1934) User Reviews

This brief cartoon is another deft Warner Bros. allegorical warning . . .

[cricket30 · 7/10 · 7 February 2017]

. . . about the (perhaps literal) Hell on Earth in store for America during the Trump Years (or perhaps we'll all be obliterated in mere months). "Warnologists" have been pointing out for years that Warner's Animated Shorts Seers division (aka, the Looney Tuners) had a particular focus upon alerting We Americans of the (then) Far Future about our upcoming Calamities, Catastrophes, Cataclysms, and Apocalpti (though Warner earned about as much respect for this Public Service as Cassandra among the Ancient Greeks). Midway through RHYTHM IN THE BOW, released by Warner in 1934, the featured fiddler wanders into a Hooverville. However, contemporary audiences for RHYTHM may have objected that such encampments of the destitute homeless were long gone, with the advent of President "FDR" Roosevelt's New Deal. And so they were THEN, but they'll be popping up again all over the face of America like the worst acne breakout any teenager has ever suffered, with Billionaire Trump's Cabinet of Deplorables. The airwaves are full these days with new outrageous plans in the war being waged against We 99 Per Centers, with the drastic reduction (that is, the virtual elimination of) ObamaCare, Planned Parenthood, Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid, Public Education, Unions, Safe Pharmaceuticals, Food Inspections, Environmental Protection, and Worker Safety Laws. It's now a Government by the Billionaires, for the Billionaires. The EPA has been renamed the Environmental Pollution Agency, a Forecloser-in-Chief heads the Treasury Department, a Red Commie KGB Medalist is in charge of Foreign Relations, and just this morning the Most Hated Lady in Michigan--Billionaire Betsy "Amway Calling" DeVos, who glories in having destroyed Detroit Public Schools--has been tapped (despite a record FIFTY "No!!!" votes!) to poison ALL of America's school kids with a bogus "brain supplement" that amounts to a Liquid Lobotomy THAT SHE'S GOING TO CHARGE FOR at her string of For-Profit Charter Learning Shacks (which is why the three kids in backpacks pop out kicking and screaming just before The Fiddler is chased out of Trumpville by the canine symbolizing Trump's puppeteer, Vlad "Mad Dog" Putin, near the close of RHYTHM IN THE BOW).